• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  1941 – 1957 · 16 yrsAppointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Career

• chairman

  1939 – 1941 · 2 yrs

• Commissioner

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  1937 – 1941 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1936 – 1937 · 1 yr

• Special counsel

  railroad reorganization, Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  1935 – present · 91 yrs

• General counsel

  Agricultural Adjustment Administration

  1933 – 1935 · 2 yrs

• Research associate

  Yale Law School

  1932 – present · 94 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1930 – 1933 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1912 – 1929 · 17 yrs

Education